#time-restricted feeding

[morgg-g]

happy lesbian visibilty week to her. i gave her a little bird

[yaoi-hate-machine]

does anyone have tips on how to feed yourself while grieving and/or freshly traumatized. or ideas/easy recipes for stuff to eat that tastes delicious. i am entering the time period of “food sounds disgusting and i am nauseous and do not wish to eat and yet i must”

[heartshattering]

5 AM

Just me and my overactive mind facing the nighttime again 🙃

[tomwambsmilk]

took my dog to a new vet the other day bc I moved a few months ago and she was mostly great except. at the end of the appointment (which was about a skin issue he developed) she said "btw your dog really needs to lose weight, I'd like to book a follow-up in a month to see-" and like. she's not wrong but it did very much annoy me that she immediately assumed I was not aware of my dog's weight problem and am not doing anything about it. he's actually 10 pounds lighter than the last time I took him to a vet. he's actively losing weight. this is something we've been working on for a while. and if. you had just. asked..... it was also particularly annoying bc when I brought him in I told her that he had hypothyroidism and was on medication for it, and weight gain is a common symptom of hypothyroidism, so like.... did you think I somehow got my dog a hypothyroidism diagnosis and prescription without ever having a conversation about his weight. come on now. so no I'm not going to pay $120 I don't have to come back in a month so you can confirm that he's still losing weight like he has been consistently for the last ten months

[jedi-bird]

The good news from the garden today is that we're getting the first lime of the year.

The bad news is that Chava might in fact have root rot to go along with her sun damage and I'm not sure I can save her.

She is currently out of her pot. Her damaged roots have been cut away and she been set aside to dry out a bit. I'll treat her next with a fungus and pest treatment and see if that helps. If not, it looks like one of her little offshoots is still healthy so I'll try to remove them just in case (need to go get fresh soil for this and it's turning into a fight to do so).

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I love seeing videos of trans joy on my social media feeds 🥰

[theredqueenandthebloodwyrm]

Most performative self-centered useless fucking nonsense

10K notes about a few activists and celebrities who did nothing more than a stunt, a "look at me! Look at me!", knowing that they weren't actually going to get into Gaza--"kidnapped" oh pleaseeee.

Kidnapped? No, they're being sent back home after their stunt that amounted to Jack shit. Even if they somehow magically managed to get their ship to Gaza, then what? They had no plans to guarantee their own safety (what of Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza?), the aid that they were carrying was such a small amount to begin with, how were they going to guarantee that the aid wasn't going to be stolen and resold on a black market? Because it sure didn't sound like they were setting up community kitchens like World Central Kitchen and Anera??

It's not fucking kidnapping, dumbasses, words have meanings. Even if you were arguing about the blockade, whether it is legal (which is different than asking whether it is right/ethical), etc, still wouldn't be kidnapping.

Genuinely pissed off about this for like fifty fucking different reasons, not the least of all being that WCK (World Central Kitchen), Anera, and other humanitarian aid organizations can't operate at the necessary level to distribute aid, but y'all want to waste time with this bullshit.

[fiercestpurpose]

one concept im super into is that like. being a vampire is hard. there are ways to make this easier, but those mostly involve joining a coven. so young vampires are vulnerable to being preyed on (ha!) by the coven system and locked into a society created by people older and richer and much better connected.

like. getting a job is hard bc your movement is restricted during the day. the covens have agreements in place with multiple people across multiple industries. they can help you get a job that is remote work or night shift, but you have to join the coven (agree to abide by their rules and participate in their conflicts with other covens) and also agree to give them ten percent of your earnings.

finding food (assuming you’re a moral person who doesn’t want to kill people) is hard. you can eat animals. you can attack people and feed on them without killing them, which is assault. you can try and buy donated human blood from hospitals. but guess who controls most of the black market human blood trade and doesn’t want to sell it to you at a fair price? it’s the covens! also, the covens have arrangements with people they drink from directly, so it’s not like they need the human blood, but being in control of the trade gives them a lot of power in the community.

a lot of times, your options as a vampire are: live in a beautiful, luxurious base where you get free food and accommodations, are able to get a job, have protection from hunters, and have people around that you can talk to, OR, live in poverty, isolation, and fear. covens as organized crime families where it’s really, really hard not to join one of them.

[liberaljane]

Women's Not So Distant History

This #WomensHistoryMonth, let's not forget how many of our rights were only won in recent decades, and weren’t acquired by asking nicely and waiting. We need to fight for our rights. Here's are a few examples:

📍 Before 1974's Fair Credit Opportunity Act made it illegal for financial institutions to discriminate against applicants' gender, banks could refuse women a credit card. Women won the right to open a bank account in the 1960s, but many banks still refused without a husband’s signature. This allowed men to continue to have control over women’s bank accounts. Unmarried women were often refused service by financial institutions entirely.

📍 Before 1977, sexual harassment was not considered a legal offense. That changed when a woman brought her boss to court after she refused his sexual advances and was fired. The court stated that her termination violated the 1974 Civil Rights Act, which made employment discrimination illegal.⚖️

📍 In 1969, California became the first state to pass legislation to allow no-fault divorce. Before then, divorce could only be obtained if a woman could prove that her husband had committed serious faults such as adultery. 💍By 1977, nine states had adopted no-fault divorce laws, and by late 1983, every state had but two. The last, New York, adopted a law in 2010.

📍In 1967, Kathrine Switzer, entered the Boston Marathon under the name "K.V. Switzer." At the time, the Amateur Athletics Union didn't allow women. Once discovered, staff tried to remove Switzer from the race, but she finished. AAU did not formally accept women until fall 1971.

📍 In 1972, Lillian Garland, a receptionist at a California bank, went on unpaid leave to have a baby and when she returned, her position was filled. Her lawsuit led to 1978's Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which found that discriminating against pregnant people is unlawful

📍 It wasn’t until 2016 that gay marriage was legal in all 50 states. Previously, laws varied by state, and while many states allowed for civil unions for same-sex couples, it created a separate but equal standard. In 2008, California was the first state to achieve marriage equality, only to reverse that right following a ballot initiative later that year. 

📍In 2018, Utah and Idaho were the last two states that lacked clear legislation protecting chest or breast feeding parents from obscenity laws. At the time, an Idaho congressman complained women would, "whip it out and do it anywhere,"

📍 In 1973, the Supreme Court affirmed the right to safe legal abortion in Roe v. Wade. At the time of the decision, nearly all states outlawed abortion with few exceptions. In 1965, illegal abortions made up one-sixth of all pregnancy- and childbirth-related deaths. Unfortunately after years of abortion restrictions and bans, the Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022. Since then, 14 states have fully banned care, and another 7 severely restrict it – leaving most of the south and midwest without access. 

📍 Before 1973, women were not able to serve on a jury in all 50 states. However, this varied by state: Utah was the first state to allow women to serve jury duty in 1898. Though, by 1927, only 19 states allowed women to serve jury duty. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 gave women the right to serve on federal juries, though it wasn't until 1973 that all 50 states passed similar legislation

📍 Before 1988, women were unable to get a business loan on their own. The Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988 allowed women to get loans without a male co-signer and removed other barriers to women in business. The number of women-owned businesses increased by 31 times in the last four decades. 

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📍 Before 1965, married women had no right to birth control. In Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), the Supreme Court ruled that banning the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy.

📍 Before 1967, interracial couples didn’t have the right to marry. In Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court found that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional. In 2000, Alabama was the last State to remove its anti-miscegenation laws from the books.

📍 Before 1972, unmarried women didn’t have the right to birth control. While married couples gained the right in 1967, it wasn’t until Eisenstadt v. Baird seven years later, that the Supreme Court affirmed the right to contraception for unmarried people.

📍 In 1974, the last “Ugly Laws” were repealed in Chicago. “Ugly Laws” allowed the police to arrest and jail people with visible disabilities for being seen in public. People charged with ugly laws were either charged a fine or held in jail. ‘Ugly Laws’ were a part of the late 19th century Victorian Era poor laws. 

📍 In 1976, Hawaii was the last state to lift requirements that a woman take her husband’s last name.  If a woman didn’t take her husband’s last name, employers could refuse to issue her payroll and she could be barred from voting. 

📍 It wasn’t until 1993 that marital assault became a crime in all 50 states. Historically, intercourse within marriage was regarded as a “right” of spouses. Before 1974, in all fifty U.S. states, men had legal immunity for assaults their wives. Oklahoma and North Carolina were the last to change the law in 1993.

📍  In 1990, the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) – most comprehensive disability rights legislation in U.S. history – was passed. The ADA protected disabled people from employment discrimination. Previously, an employer could refuse to hire someone just because of their disability.

📍 Before 1993, women weren’t allowed to wear pants on the Senate floor. That changed when Sen. Moseley Braun (D-IL), & Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) wore trousers - shocking the male-dominated Senate. Their fashion statement ultimately led to the dress code being clarified to allow women to wear pants. 

📍 Emergency contraception (Plan B) wasn't approved by the FDA until 1998. While many can get emergency contraception at their local drugstore, back then it required a prescription. In 2013, the FDA removed age limits & allowed retailers to stock it directly on the shelf (although many don’t).

📍  In Lawrence v. Texas (2003), the Supreme Court ruled that anti-cohabitation laws were unconstitutional. Sometimes referred to as the ‘'Living in Sin' statute, anti-cohabitation laws criminalize living with a partner if the couple is unmarried. Today, Mississippi still has laws on its books against cohabitation. 

[reasonsforhope]

"In Saskatchewan, Canada’s first free grocery store is set to open as a flourishing food bank continues to look for ways to support the community.

Located at 1881 Broad St. in Regina, the Food Hub will be stocked like any old grocery store, and unlike similar projects that operate out of churches or community centers, it will feature a produce section, floor-to-ceiling display fridges, and be open all week.

The Regina Food Bank believes that allowing people who rely on the food bank for food security to fill out a cart just like a normal grocery store gives back agency, and may actually help feed more people by reducing waste.

“None of us fit in a box, but that’s what we give our clients today,” Regina Food Bank vice-president David Froh told CBC News. “When you give choices, you give not just dignity, but actually, we figure we can feed about 25% more people.”

One client explained that getting handed a crate of canned/boxed goods put together in a hurry based on what was in stock rarely provides a selection that accounts for things like dietary restrictions, allergies, proper nutrition, or even just synergistic flavors between the foods.

“Normally I barter with my neighbors and we swap back and forth, so it kind of works out that way. But a lot of people don’t do that,” said food bank client Jon White. “So there’s a lot of stuff that just goes to waste.”

The Regina Food Bank doesn’t just support the unhoused or others in dire need of aid; 18% of its clients work full-time, and 2,000 students receive school snacks and meals through their work. Part of their overall objectives with the Food Hub is to reduce societal stigma against using a food bank.

Food banks do not receive government subsidies, so Froh and his colleagues had to look for private donations to raise the CAD$3.7 million they needed to get the Food Hub off the ground. Some of this came from piggy bank-sized gifts, but they also received a CAD$1 million donation from The Mosaic Company.

Much of the stock is produced, grown, or processed in Saskatchewan—part of Regina Food Bank’s goal to improve the sustainability and nutritional quality of the food their clients rely on."

-via Good News Network, June 4, 2024

[obsessivevoidkitten]

Love is a Many-Legged Thing

Yandere Squid Merman x Gender Neutral Reader CW: Noncon, tentacle noncon, light tentacle bondage, stalking, kidnapping, squid-based merman, big slimy prehensile merman dick, reader fucked senseless, merman fantasizes about receiving oral sex, general yandere behavior, delusional yandere, voyeurism, exhibitionism Word Count: 2k (Happy MerMay!!!! I really hope you all love the fic, would have been done weeks ago had the ac not died. But still 40min left of MerMay! I wrote this fast without a beta reader so please forgive any mistakes! The name Onyk is a reference to Onykia Ingens, a deap sea squid with an astoundingly long dick.)

Seaspark Aquarium was a very unique establishment. Not only did it contain the usual attractions that an aquarium housed, the tide pools, the sharks, a seemingly unending variety of colorful fish and corals and nudibranchs, but it also housed transient merfolk. The aquarium was situated on a flat outcrop of rocky land. Via submerged tubes it granted access to a huge tank to the ocean and merfolk below.

The tank was absolutely massive and had many different areas including a reef, a seaweed forest, a beach, and even a secluded sea cave. There were underwater cameras in most of the areas that live streamed what was happening on screens for the humans. Though the sea cave feed was restricted to adults only since the merfolk sometimes mated there.

The aquarium was just as much an exhibit for the merpeople as it was for the humans, they had underwater screens that allowed them to view the humans at play and at the food court. They enjoyed seeing and even communicating with their terrestrial cousins. There were several areas where humans and merpeople could talk face to face or via the cameras. Many of them visited quite frequently and made friendships with regular customers and their favorite staff members.

You had been blessed with landing a really good job at Seaspark Aquarium. Though it was entirely because you were the cousin of the curator of the establishment. You did janitorial tasks, including sometimes scraping the tanks, and occasionally you had to provide food for an exhibit. Even though interacting with animals or merfolk was not a common part of your job, there was one squid-man who had become quite friendly with you. Onyk.

Most of the squid type mermen shied away from human interaction, and really the aquarium as a whole, but not Onyk. He had always been a frequent visitor. A knowledgeable observer might even say it seemed that he had been hoping to find something there. The first few times he had gone had been out of pure curiosity about humans after hearing tales about them his entire life. But after his first couple of visits he was enthralled. Everything about the land walkers amazed him.

And then he met you and felt his heart flutter every single time he looked upon you. He frequently tried to engage you in conversation whenever he could and was always watching you, though often it was in secret. Onyk cherished your chats with him, he found you so interesting, even more so than he found other humans. He loved seeing you go about your tasks, it made him think of you cleaning his home as his mate while he went and got food for the two of you.

Of course if you had any say, that would never happen. Onyk, for some reason you couldn't quite place, creeped you out. No, it wasn't the head of tentacles he had in place of hair, nor the dark purple tentacles he had from the waist down, it wasn't his smile that showed off his dangerously sharp teeth, or his cyan blue eyes. No, it wasn't anything physical, just a weird energy he seemed to give off. Like a hungry animal hunting its prey.

You tried to be nice to Onyk, though you always tried to keep conversations brief and hurry on to other tasks that would take you out of his reach. Unfortunately he took your awkward stammers and clumsy rushing to zip away from him as you being extremely shy because you liked him. He sighed and stared at you longingly, head resting on his hands, as you rushed off once more. Clearly you were simply too embarrassed by your emotions to act rationally around him. Onyk had to find a way to get you to stop running off. As adorable as it was that you kept scampering off from your shyness you really needed to be closer to him.

Onyk had a brilliant, though simple, idea. It came to him right as you were in the middle of making another excuse to run away from him while the two of you were chatting in the beach area. He'd simply grab you. It wasn't the first thing he'd normally do, but you were just too prone to running off. It was more than obvious you needed him to make a firm and forceful first move.

"Well uh... it was nice seeing you again Onyk... but um... I gotta go check on the tide p-"

Onyk lunged at you suddenly with the speed and ferocity of lightning. He pulled you into the water and swiftly took you into the empty sea cave and sat you on the dry ground within. Yes, this would do perfectly for his purposes. It was a huge room that had an area for him to swim and enough space for you to run about and get exercise. This would make a lovely home for the two of you, he'd have to keep all the other merfolk out from now on but that wasn't an issue, they were respectful of claimed territory.

Once you caught your breath you were confused and angry at the sudden relocation.

"What the f-"

He interrupted you again, this time by pressing his hungry lips to yours in a passionate embrace. His long tongue slipped past your unsuspecting lips and explored every inch that it could reach. His saliva pooled in your mouth, claiming it. The offending muscle snaked down your throat before finally retreating as he broke the kiss, you struggled to find your breath once more.

"Heh, sorry for interrupting, I have just been waiting to kiss you for so long I couldn't hold back any longer!"

“What!? Why did you do that? Why did you bring me here!?”

“Well your shyness was making it hard for us to take things to the next step in our relationship, now you can’t let your nervousness get the better of you and make you run off!”

“Next step in our relationship? We have no relationship, you creep!”

“Don’t say that! Y-you just have the jitters because moving in is such a big step! Yeah, they’ll wear off soon I’m sure.”

“There won’t be a soon, I am going back to the beach!”

You started to head back to the water, but Onyk closed the distance between the two of you easily.

“But you can’t go! You’re just in denial and nervous, but you’ll love living with me, I promise. M-maybe I’m not moving too fast but too slow. That must be it, you must be all pent up and eager for my dick! So naughty~”

Onyk’s blush was evident even on his light blue skin. He swallowed your complaints in another deep kiss as he stood behind you and rubbed your crotch gently.

“We’ll do it in front of these cameras so everyone knows you’re mine now~”

And, indeed, the screens in the adults only section of the aquarium definitely picked up some viewers as the scene between you and Onyk unfolded.

Most mermen would have had trouble traversing land, but Onyk’s strong tentacles allowed him to maneuver easily enough. He peeled off your wet clothing and wrapped his arms tightly around your bare chest, rubbing and caressing you with greedy hands. His prehensile cock wrapped partially around your waist, held you close as it rubbed against you. At first you mistook the sensation for a tentacle before looking down and seeing it, the cock was tapered, icy blue and glowing at the tip, with the rest of it being dark purple.

Your shouts and screams were ignored as Onyk convinced himself they were just you being grumpy or maybe playing hard to get. The merman’s sharp teeth bit carefully at your tender neck as you squirmed. Most of his tentacles had wrapped around your legs, powerful suction cups firmly adhered them to you. They held you staunchly in place despite your best efforts to struggle.

The remaining two writhing appendages were busy with another task. They gently prodded and massaged your tight hole, slowly worming their way inside you. Your efforts to clench and keep them outside of you were rendered futile as they finally worked their way inside of you. They began thrusting in tandem back and forth within you, loosening you up well.

Your next attempt at protesting devolves into several lusty moans as he ministrations begin to elicit pleasure. It’s all the confirmation he needs that he has been right all along and definitely went about everything in the right way.

“Your mating sounds are so lovely,” he said as he nipped at your ear.

His tentacles suddenly withdrew from your lovingly stretched hole, leaving you involuntarily whimpering at the sudden removal.

“Awe, don’t worry, love. I have something far better to put into you~”

You snap out of it when you hear those words and feel his cock move itself from your waist and start wiggling against you in search of its target.

“What!? No, please do-oooh~ Aaah!”

When it found your entrance it deftly slithered right in. Much to your unwilling pleasure.

Onyk chuckled.

“I knew you just needed some good dick~ You feel soooo good. You were made for this!”

When you happened to look up at one of the cameras you blushed and looked down. The room that monitored the sea cave was now packed, everyone enjoying the sight. The aquarium was already at work recording with plans to put it on their website for sale.

You couldn’t help the lewd cacophony of noises that tumbled from your mouth as the thick slimy cock thrust back and forth inside of you.

“I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you!” Onyk chanted louder and louder until he slammed into you hard, filling you up with warm viscous semen at the same moment that you were shuddering from the strongest orgasm that you had ever experienced.

You were far too dazed and overstimulated to realize what was going on in that moment or what you were saying, but on autopilot you mumbled back what your brain thought it was supposed to when someone told you that they loved you.

“I l-love you too…”

Onyk was overjoyed to hear those words from his beloved human. He pulled out of you and laid down on the floor of the cave, pulling you close to him and resting your head on his chest. His webbed fingers gently caressed you as did both the tentacles that made up his "hair" and the ones below his waist. Cum slowly ebbed out of you and onto him but he didn't mind, the two of you would just get messy again the second you came to your senses. He nuzzled into your hair and gave you dozens of little kisses. Your mind was too blank and your body too exhausted to do anything but drool a bit on his chest while he cuddled you.

His head was swimming with all of the things the two of you would do together. Sharing meals, chatting, mating. He couldn’t wait to wrap his cock gently around your neck while at the same time plunging it down your throat and having that pretty mouth of yours suck it until he was feeding you his cum. Maybe the two of you could try it when you woke up.

Meanwhile onlookers on the viewing screens were putting away their cocks and slipping their fingers out of their pussies with the spectacle now over, but word soon spread and tourism was up over 300 percent! Scientists the world over were interested in documenting this rare species of merman having sexual relations with a human. Grants were given. A great raise and credit to your cousin, the curator.

It was even considered a diplomatic victory for merfolk and humans!

Everyone came to the consensus that on all fronts, but yours, it was far too beneficial and lucrative to make sure you had to permanently stay in the sea cave for the rest of your life with Onyk. At the very least they equipped the habitat with amenities like a proper bathroom, tv, video games, and human food. The sea cave area was also expanded, and you were afforded some privacy, except for most of the times that your “husband” Onyk was spilling his seed into you. That’s what people wanted to see.

[doublequaterpounder]

Getting fat and fatter on purpose is truly a top teir life experience. like full being in tune with you body, listening to every craving eating whenever you get hungry. making yourself full and fulfilled and just high feeling concept as your body grows as you listen to it

when i was fit and working out i was constantly ignoring my body and restricting it and trying to convince it to go out and over exert itself so it burns itself away but reclaiming that and enjoying the growth and feeding it what it’s wanted the whole time

true at peace lifestyle following exactly what it wants and i want to be fat and that’s very cool

[hyacinth-in-a-haze]

Baby I need more of our weird little monster husband :3 He's rotting my brain

Have you lot never heard of stranger danger? Honestly

Contains- more horrors! Gore, violence, possessive behaviour, body horror

Yandere husband??? X fem reader

It seems as though you're the only person who has noticed anything different about your husband since his return. But when the household runs as smoothly as always it doesn't feel too much of a concern to explain to everybody that the Lord of the castle has been replaced by a creature who shifts faces and changes skin like he's dressing for dinner. The only difference in his demeanor is his new love for you but it's no one's place to question the relationship their lord has with his lady.

Small mercies you suppose. You once asked him what had happened to anyone who realised he really was. Your husband turned to you in bed with that lovesick smile he has every time you speak.

“I ate them, my dear,” he says it so casually the words take a moment to settle in. There are only little cracks in his facade, slightly more pronounced at night when he lets himself relax, those teeth of his, sharpened to a point are always there, peeking out if you looked hard enough.

You pale, “you eat people” repeating the obvious as you suddenly think of every time he ever nipped at you, the marks littering your neck, chest, and thighs. How you showed very little resistance to them,

“I can steal anyone's face, but if I want their memories too I eat them as well.”

“Does that mean you ate my husband?” You turn over to face his side. He looks so proud of himself as he nods. “What made you choose to take his place?” you finally ask the question you've been holding onto ever since the night he revealed himself towards you.He pulls a grimaced face at your words, cradling your head in his hands, as he pulls you so close your noses touch.

“I'm your husband now, don't call that man by the same name as me,” he pouts, it's absurd this creature pouting in your bed. “He cared nothing for you, didn't deserve that title, he didn't deserve to have you first and then waste it.” He strokes your hair lovingly. “It was an accident at first, he found me feeding and tried to kill me on his own. When his men came looking for him I had already taken his face and his memories along with that. So I thought of taking his place too.I wasn't expecting anything much but when I came here and saw you.” He leans in, peppering new kisses across your cheeks, “how could I not stay here when I have the most precious pet by my side?” he pulls you down in one sudden movement. Hovering above you as he did that night with delight in those unending eyes of his .That's what you were in his mind, the most sweetest little pet to adore. Although he may look at you with all this love, you don't believe he truly can love . He can observe, obsess and adore, but can any of this really be called love?

It's the closest thing you've ever experienced to it though. So perhaps that's why you say nothing, don't look for any help and merely melt into his touch when he is so quick to offer it. Overlooking the way he glares at anyone else who takes up space near you, the insistence on only himself accompanying you every time you want to leave the castle grounds. You can't protest these restrictions when all the permissions you enjoyed previously were all from your first husband's neglect. So you say nothing.

Until you find your way to the stables, wanting an early morning ride, one of your few freedoms he hasn't thought to amend yet. It is quiet. Too quiet when the stable boy spends each morning singing to some ballad or other as he readies your mare for you. When you open the door the sun illuminates the horrors before you, your husband half regressed into his true form. That unending black mass of teeth and claws clashing against the form he's chosen to take. Bone and flesh corrupted in this unfinished mess, feasting on something. You think it's a horse at first, your brain trying to trick your eyes to protect you from the sight of that monster consuming from the broken ribs of that stable boy. His head littered close to your feet, face frozen in a terror you must also share, the eyes having been plucked out.

That sweet stable boy who was but your own age and stammered every time you spoke. Was that his great crime?

You don't scream, you don't think you even can, there's a slow dripping sound as the creature becomes aware of the light, swiveling his neck to see who discovered this massacre. The sight of his face, a cruel amalgamation of your husband and the stable boy as well as his own form, features contorting to a mockery of your own terror. Is this being discovered in this state? He makes no move to speak, only watching your reaction as you heave your breakfast all over the stable floor. Crooning in that tenderness he seems to hold for you. He doesn't chase after you when you flee back to your bed chamber, locking the door and throwing salt against it as though that could do anything.

You made a mistake in thinking your monster was harmless to the world just because he shows gentleness with you.

There is a knock on the door, the same mournful voice crying out over and over “If you loved me you'd let me in.” howling with the wind outside. He changes tactics every so often, now it's the guilting, trying to cajole you to the door. Begging for a warm hand like a stray dog. You stay in your room, wrapped in your blanket to keep out the cold, to keep out his words. Shaking under the bed.

“Please forgive me ,I didn't mean to do it in front of you, I didn't know you would have seen it” . You pray silently that the door holds but when have the gods ever heard a prayer of protection from him? “I was only thinking for your sake, you knew the way he'd look at you, I couldn't bear it if you fell for him. And I warned him before all this, to stay away from what's mine. But he didn't listen and I had to act before it was too late. You understand why I had to do it for you, right?” He waits for your answer growing more frustrated with silence “right?” He screams, the sound echoing. He pauses, you could think he was taking deep breaths to calm himself if he was capable of breathing.

“My love, my sweet sweet love,” the door begins to shake in its frame “I didn't mean to scare you. You must have been so scared to see me like that. But I promise you, I'd never do such a thing to you. I love you too much to ever lay a finger on you, so please let me in.” There is silence finally, but no footsteps making their way away from the door. Then a slow heavy sound, as you look from the crack of light where the quilt doesn't meet the floorboards.

A black form seeping underneath the crack in the door, like ink overturned onto a page. You curl into a ball and tremble. How could you think you would be able to barricade yourself against something that can become smoke or water just as easily as he becomes solid. He is silent as he forms himself again, clothing clean, with no memory of the blood and viscera that he was soiled in. Something both solid and smoke grabs at you with little ceremony. Dragging you from your hiding place into his arms, he embraces you as though with enough effort he can squeeze you into himself.

“You were sick,” he mutters, as though that was the only thing that happened. “You should return to bed.” no word goes between you about what was just witnessed. You only nod and let him put you to bed.

“I love you,” he says over and over as though those words could erase what was seen from your mind. “I know you don't love me yet,” he cradles you against his chest. Faintly, you can still smell rust from his skin. The bile begins to rise in the back of your throat. “but I can wait, and I'll protect you to make sure no one steals you from me until then.” When he kisses you, there is no taste on his tongue. No trace of that sweet stable boy apart from a blood stain on the stable floor.

[hotpinkrathian]

AO3 Was scraped for generative AI

Perhaps this is already common knowledge on this app, but I have yet to see anything about it in my feed. If you are unaware, an AI tech company called HuggingFace recently had a user by the name of nyuuzyou scrape our beloved AO3.

This scrape included over 63 MILLION fanfics written by the hard working, passionate, and incredible people of every fandom. The scrape was conducted with the intent of using the data to generate AI fanfiction and fiction. If you have a fanfic on AO3 that has an ID between 1-63 200 000, and is publicly accessible (not restricted to registered users), then your work was scraped and used in the process.

AO3 admins are currently searching for solutions and some kind of retributions. Until then, make sure to limit your works to registered users and show the real writers that you value their time and contribution to fandom.

More about it here

[healthglorious]

Eat Early for Better Blood Sugar Control

Introduction For general health and well-being, it’s imperative to maintain healthy blood sugar levels. Low blood sugar levels can cause symptoms including weariness, dizziness, and disorientation, while high blood sugar levels can raise the chance of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and other metabolic problems. Despite the fact that there are numerous elements that affect blood sugar…

[fairyminnie444]

[CONFIDENTIAL]

REALITY HACKER FILES

VOLUME 1

ULTRA LEVEL - RESTRICTED ACCESS

FILE: 001

CODE: I AM

→ Access password to the Creation System.

→ What you affirm to be, the System recognizes and executes.

→ Example: “I AM a millionaire.” Status: Command Accepted.

FILE: 002

CODE: REALITY IS PLASTIC

→ There is no solid matter. Everything is malleable data waiting for a command.

→ You are molding the hologram every second.

FILE: 003

CODE: TIME DOESN’T EXIST

¥→ The only real time is NOW.

→ Past and future are programs running in the loop of your perception.

FILE: 004

CODE: EMOTION IS THE KEYBOARD

→ What you feel commands the source code of reality.

→ Strong emotion = instant execution.

FILE: 005

CODE: OBSERVATION CREATES

→ Attention is vital energy.

→ What you observe, you feed. What you ignore, dissolves.

[█████████████████████] 100%

OFFICIAL SEAL:

█▓▒­░⡷⠂ >>> ＲＥＡＬＩＴＹ ＩＳ ＵＮＤＥＲ ＹＯＵＲ ＣＯＮＴＲＯＬ <<< ⠐⢾░▒▓█

[REALITY HACKER APPROVED]

Authorized Operator: YOU.

[[ ALGORITHM: YOU ARE GOD ]]

[[ COMMAND: MANIFEST ]]

Final Instruction:

“Execute without question. Trust the Code. Your Reality has already been updated.”